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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Diane Taylor

Parents appeal to Home Office after daughter left homeless in Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa

Lati-Yana Stephanie Brown
Lati-Yana Stephanie Brown has been living with her grandmother in Jamaica while waiting to join her parents in the UK. Photograph: Supplied

A distraught couple are appealing to the Home Office to expedite a visa decision and speedily grant permission for their eight-year-old daughter to join them in the UK after Hurricane Melissa left her homeless and destitute in Jamaica.

Lati-Yana Stephanie Brown is being cared for by her grandmother in Cash Hill, Hanover, a part of the island that was badly damaged by the storm. Her Jamaican mother, Kerrian Bigby, came to the UK to join her British father, Jerome Hardy, in April 2023. The couple married earlier this year.

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